Introduction

About Me — The Story of Me as a Traveler

General Background

After graduating from college, I moved to the United States. My first job was as an IT manager. While building networks and handling help desk duties, I lived in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Then one day, a passenger plane crashed into the World Trade Center buildings — on September 11, 2001, the terrorist attacks that shocked the world occurred. I still cannot forget the impact of that day.

After that, as the economy worsened, I moved to Detroit, Michigan in search of new opportunities. While working at a local restaurant setting up POS systems and the like, I somehow started making sushi, and before I knew it I became the store manager. My life always seems to be led down unexpected paths.

However, due to the Lehman Shock, Detroit was hit by an unprecedented economic crisis with an unemployment rate of 55%, and the store faced the threat of closure.
But I didn’t give up; I took over management and revived the store without laying off a single person. We made sushi bento boxes every day and delivered them, and together with the staff we overcame it. I’m still truly grateful to those colleagues.

A few years later, for various reasons I left Detroit and returned to New Jersey. This time I worked as the general manager of four Manhattan stores, spending my days leading a multinational team.

But in 2020, Manhattan was locked down due to COVID-19. The next day I was forced to make decisions: lay off employees, dispose of inventory, and resign. While responsible for all four stores, I felt that “now is the time to protect my family,” so I evacuated to Delaware. By the way, Delaware has no sales tax, which was a pleasant surprise.

After that, my family went their separate ways.
My wife went to Sedona, my eldest son to Boston, my second son to Denver, and my youngest son to Michigan.
I based myself in Sedona and, while occasionally returning to Japan, spent some time quietly as the house manager of a share house. When I temporarily returned to Japan, I experienced three days of quarantine at APA Hotels in both countries, which was another unforgettable memory.

I now live in Sedona, spending calm days reflecting on myself.

Spiritual Background

Since childhood, I’ve been sensitive to people’s facial expressions and changes in emotion, and I sometimes sensed the atmosphere around me or “sounds” that no one else should hear.
I also felt that the taste of food reflected the cook’s state of mind, as if their personality were conveyed through it.

Back in high school when I worked part-time washing dishes.
After strongly thinking “I wish they wouldn’t come” about a mean colleague, three coworkers became unable to come in a short period due to accidents or injuries. Looking back, I might have unconsciously sent out a strong intent.
Since then, I’ve tried to avoid conflicts with people as much as possible and began to suppress the “something” inside me.

Then, just before graduating high school, I suddenly lost a close friend who had been with me since junior high in a motorcycle accident.
Despite warning him many times “don’t ride today,” I couldn’t stop him.
At the time there were many traffic accidents and I lost several seniors and classmates from my part-time job, but I was terrified that I somehow felt that event as a “premonition.”

Just before graduating college, another close friend lost a leg in a motorcycle accident and was hospitalized. That day too, I had told him, “Do not ride a motorcycle under any circumstances.”
Even so, I couldn’t save him—.
I came to hate this “sensation” inside me, sealed it away, and fled to America.

However, wonderful encounters awaited me in America.
The moment I met my now-wife, I had a strange certainty that “I will be with this person.” It felt as if my soul remembered her, like the grandmother of the protagonist in the manga “Hyakki Yakousho” — a meeting that felt remembered by the soul.

Later, after being taken to the emergency room for an anaphylactic shock, I needed to distinguish foods that suited my body from those that didn’t.
I began using O-ring testing and pendulum dowsing, and gradually my spiritual senses returned.

At the restaurant, I had a keener sense of taste than anyone, could intuitively detect the freshness of ingredients, and could anticipate preparations by reading the “ki” of staff and customers.
I have also conducted hundreds of interviews, hiring and training by sensing a person’s “ki” and background among multinational personnel.
By detecting in advance the timing of when someone might quit or internal anxieties and following up, I helped maintain team stability.

And then, one day——
the moment I casually picked up a crystal called phenakite that my wife was wearing, I felt a heat like a hot stone and instinctively let it go. When I picked it up again, it had returned to being an ordinary stone as if nothing had happened.

This event was my introduction to crystals.
From that day, crystals became my “best friends” — something I never want to lose again.

After this experience, the spiritual senses within me began to awaken.
I realized that the difficulties of living as an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) and an empath are actually talents and strengths.

Encountering psychiatrist Dr. David R. Hawkins’ book “Power vs. Force” gave me a new perspective on levels of consciousness.
I also use a pendulum to measure my own energy and the state of my surroundings.

Encountering Ho’oponopono and Unihipili became a major trigger for facing the “other self” I had been neglecting.
Akashic Records, the library of one’s soul.
Blueprints, the path one decided before being born.
Reincarnation, why I was born—
These themes began to appear before me one after another.

These days, I feel that balancing the chakras is the simplest and most reliable way to understand and align yourself.

I spend my days in Sedona — a special place — gently attending to myself.

Finally

Thank you so much for reading this long post all the way through.

Through my experience running restaurants, I came to strongly appreciate that everyone has the right role or place suited to them.
If you get that placement wrong, no matter how talented the people or how good the plan, it won’t work.

And now, what I value most is —

**”My own manager is myself”**.

There are things I’m good at. Yet I can’t always believe it; I lack confidence.
Even while carrying those feelings, taking a step forward.
— It’s not easy. But it will surely move you forward.

I too am currently taking that step as I walk.
Together with crystals, together with myself, here in Sedona.